Monday, November 13, 2006

WELCOME TO SEED: THE CONSUMER ADVENTURE BLOG!

NAVIGATION

After picking up Seed magazine on a recent visit to Borders Bookstore, Melinda decides to visit the website, www.seedmagazine.com. At the homepage she sees her navigation options are "Social," "Natural," "Medical,""Media," and "Links." Inspired the cultural aspects of the magazine, she clicks on "Social." Here she sees articles that says when people speak in tongues, their brainwaves change. Intrigued, she reads the article and clicks a link on brainwave patterns that takes her Medical link. She likes the way articles are interrelated, with with hypertext, instead of a huge sidebar seemingly forcing her to go there for information she may or may not want.

After looking over an article on brainwaves, she decides to go to the "Media" section to see what's offered. She finds tons of videos, podcasts, and slide shows. She downloads the podcasts"This Week In Science," and "I can't believe this is science" for her morning commute.

CONTENT

Navigating Seedmagazine.com, Melinda sees the underlying message of culture and science being interrelated. She finds artilces and various types of media that talk about science, culture, technology, and society as a whole. It spans the gamut from current events, to in depth research articles.

Links

As mentioned before, Melinda finds the small, hyper-text links in the articles helpful, without being intrusive. Further, she finds the sister sites, Phylotaxis.com and scienceblogs.com to be great links to read other articles, and enjoy further discussions on the topics mentioned.